Muni Budhu “Soil Mechanics and Foundations “, 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, NY, 2010.

Errata First printing.

If your country’s code or standards delineate clays as soil particles less than 0.002 mm then do not replace 0.002 by 0.005 as given below.

Last updated: 3/1/2015

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xii 16 lines from bottom Replace “216” by “214”

17 19 Replace “Ds” by “D”

17 20 Replace “less” by “greater”

18 10 Replace 0.002 by 0.005

18 Table 2.1 Replace 0.002 by 0.005 in the last two lines of the last column

20 Figure E2.1 Shift the line demarcating clays right to correspond to 0.005 mm rather than 0.002 mm

22 Figure E2.2 Shift the line demarcating clays right to correspond to 0.005 mm rather than 0.002 mm

23 3 Replace 0.002 by 0.005

23

Step 2

Strategy replace 0.002 by 0.005

Replace 0.002 by 0.005

% finer than 0.002 by % finer than 0.005

Replace 0.002 mm = 24.9% by 0.005 mm = 39%

Replace % clay in the soil in Example 2.1 is (24.5/100) x 15.4 = 3.8% by

% clay in the soil in Example 2.1 is (39/100) x 15.4 = 6%

Replace % silt = 15.4 – 3.9 = 11.6% by % silt = 15.4 – 6 = 9.4%

Shift the lines demarcating clays in Figure E2.4 from 0.002 mm to 0.005 mm

37 Line 10 from bottom Replace Tres by Tr

40 5

6

Insert CR = 0.8; 0 < L ≤4 𝑚

Replace 0.61 by 0.60

44 7 Replace 𝐶𝑢 =𝐷10

𝐷60 𝑏𝑦 𝐶𝑢 =

𝐷60

𝐷10

52 5 Add “s” to “container”

57 16 Replace Weight of dry soil: Ww by Weight of dry soil: Ws

63 First line after Table 4.6 Replace line by “You should recall that the clay fraction” by “The clay fraction in Equation (4.19)”

63 12th line after Table 4.6 Replace “Equations (4.16 – 4.19)” by “Equations (4.17 – 4.19)”

73 Line 22 Replace “Figure 4.10b” by “Figure 4.10c”

77 Line 1 Replace 9 by 14

77 Figure E4.13 Shift the lines demarcating clays right to correspond to 0.005 mm rather than 0.002 mm

Replace 59 by 47, 29 by 41 in the table under Step 1

78 6 lines from the bottom Replace 59 + 29 by 47 + 41

80 4 Replace “than soil B” by “than Soil A”

81 8

11

20

24

Replace “swell index” by “swell factor”

Replace 22.2 by 11.1

Replace 30 x 1.5 x 1 = 45 m3 by 30 x 1.5 x 1 x 103 = 45 x 103 m3

Replace 51.6 by 61.9, 10 by 11.1 x 0.9, and 5160 by 6190

82 Step 2, line 5 Replace 1.527,777 by 1,527,777

103 2nd from last Replace “optimimun” by “optimum”

109 4 lines from bottom Replace “flow” by “velocity”

127 12 Replace “(100 – 993) by “(1000 – 993”

148 Line 21 Equation (7.36) Change “Major” to “Minor”

151 8 lines from bottom Replace ‘stress s” by “stress”

159 Bottom line Replace both “0.12” in the equation by “0.4”

168 Line 3, eq. 7.78 Replace 4 by 2 in the equation

169 11 lines from bottom Replace “7.00” in the row 3 column 2 by “5.00”

175 13 Replace “r/z’ by “ro/z”

180 Step 3 line 2

Step 4 line 8

Step 4 line 10

Replace “0.001 to 2” by “0.01 to 1” and “I = 0.48” by “I ≈ 0.48”

Replace “0.001 to 2” by “0.01 to 1” and “0.88” by “0.98”

Replace “0.001 to 2” by “0.01 to 1”

184 40 Replace “soft” by “medium”

185 Lines 6 and 7 Delete “and lateral”

193 Line 4 Replace “insert” by “inset”

200 Line 3 from bottom Replace both references to “increases” by “decreases”

200 Fig 8.3a Insert “Ko = 0.6” below sat = 20 kN/m3

212 11 lines from bottom Replace “∆uo = z” by “∆uo = ∆z”

213 Line 19 Replace “216” by “214”

214 Line 4 Replace “zc” by “zu”

217 Line 1 Replace “4.13” by “4.11”

238 Caption Figure 9.15

Line 13

Replace “Root” by ‘”Log”

Replace 9.31 by 9.33

244 7 lines from bottom

3 lines from bottom Insert (𝑡𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑)90 =

(𝑇𝑣)90

(𝑇𝑣)50𝑡𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑 =

0.848

0.197× 7.13=31.4 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠

Replace 0.01 by 0.012

245 Table 9.1 Replace “Table 9.1” by “Table 9.10”

250 3 lines from bottom Replace “200 ” by “240”

251 Lines 13

Line 14

Line 15

Line 16

Replace “1.2 = 18.8” by “1.13 = 18.87”

Replace “18.8” by “18.87” and “9.16” by “9.2”

Replace “9.16” by “9.2” and “59.3” by “59.8”

Replace “59.3” by “59.8”

256 Line 7 Replace “is Section 9.9” by “in Section 9.9”

258 Line 5 below Problem

Solving

Replace “50” by “150”

263 12

20

Replace “strain versus the shear strain” by “volumetric strain versus the shear strain”

Replace “critical ratio” by “critical void ratio”

370 Page title Replace “CHAPTER 7 STRESSES, STRAINS AND ELASTIC DEFORMATIONS OF SOILS” by

CHAPTER 11 A CRITICAL STATE MODEL TO INTERPRET SOIL BEHAVIOR”

275 Figure 10.14 Replace

(𝜎1)𝑓+(𝜎3)𝑓

2 by

(𝜎1′)

𝑓+(𝜎3

′)𝑓

2

286 Line 4 Replace (𝜎3′)𝑐 by (𝜎3

′)𝑐𝑠

289 Line 10 from the bottom Replace 200 N by 400 N

292 Line 9 Replace “stess” by “stress”

293 Figure 10.21a Replace “P” by “Pz”

296 Figure 10.22bn Replace “P” by Pz”

298 Line 3 from bottom Replace mm2 by mm3

299 Line 2 Replace 1

o

z

H

in table by

1 (%)o

z

H

Replace p

o

V

V

in table by (%)p

o

V

V

301 Lines 1 and 2 Replace 304 by 302

303 Line 12 Replace by

1 3

1 3

160sin = = 0.45

256 96

cs cs

cs

cs cs

by

1 3

1 3

160sin = = 0.45

' ' 256 96

cs cs

cs

cs cs

319 Line 6 from bottom Replace Table 10.18 by Table 10.8

322 Line 3

Line 11 from bottom, right

hand side

Replace “on page 324” by “in the table below”

Replace (∆𝜎𝑧)by (∆𝜎𝑥)

334 Line 3 Replace “ESF” by “ESP”

335 Figure 11.8 c Draw a horizontal line beyond F to show a plateau deviatoric stress

341 Equation(11.8) Change '

1

'

3 cs

'cs1

'

3

2 16sin

= = =3 sin

1

'f f

e ' '

f

f

qM

p

to'

1

'

3 cs

'cs1

'

3

3 16sin

= = =3 sin

2 1

'f f

e ' '

f

f

qM

p

375 Figure 11.31 Replace 𝑡𝑐′ by 𝑡𝑐

381 Equation (11.86) Replace (∆𝜎1)𝑓 by (∆𝜎1)𝑓

385 Line 12 from bottom Add after “…stress.” Assume the sand does not fail in tension.

386 Line 9 Replace Figure 11.22 by Figure 11.21

388 Line 21 Replace 𝜎𝑧𝑜′ by 𝜎𝑧𝑐

′

401 Line 15 Replace 1cp

q Mpp

by 1cp

q Mpp

432 Eq. 12.12 Insert i in second part of the right side of equation

ESA: 1 0.5u f q q q q q qq D N s d i b g B N s d i b g

457 Equations (12.44), (12.45) Replace “cN” by “CN”

459 Line 6 Replace Table 10.4 by Table 10.6

460 Line 5 Replace Table 10.4 by Table 10.6

582 Figure 14.2 Replace “s” by “s”

664 Line 6 Replace “Su” by “su”

694 Line 11 Replace “js” by “Js”

720 Exercise 16.7 line 6 Replace “y = 133 m” by “z = 133 m”

723 Table A.3 Replace all values of 0.002 by 0.005